Birder's Guide to Colorado (Lane/Aba Birdfinding Guide.) [Spiral-bound]

Harold R. Holt (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1878788051 | ISBN-13: 978-1878788054 | Publication Date: February 1997 | Edition: 4th

Colorado has a wonderful diversity of birds, offering exciting specialties and serendipitous finds to birders from every part of the continent. Most people associate Colorado with its Rocky Mountains - easily accessible right up to the tundra in every season of the year. Winter-plumaged White-tailed Ptarmigan, the same color as snow - as shown in the author's cover photograph from Guanella Pass - is high on any birder's wish list, but on the way up to see it, you will also find the three species of rosy-finch and an excellent variety of jays, woodpeckers, and winter finches. The Rockies is but one of the bird habitats for which Colorado is well known. The Eastern Plains, at their best on Pawnee National Grassland, offer such breeding specialties as Mountain Plover and McCown's and Chestnut-collared Longspurs. In April you may watch Greater and Lesser Prairie-Chickens on their strutting grounds. The Western Plateaus and Valleys, which comprise the western third of Colorado, have their own specialties - Sage and Sharp-tailed Grouse, Chukar Gray Vireo, Black-throated and Crace's Warblers, and many more.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 392 pages
• Publisher: American Birding Association; 4th edition (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878788051
• ISBN-13: 978-1878788054
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #885,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Birding CO with Holt in my pocket, December 12, 2008

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Alice "Merrill" (Fair Oaks, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Birder's Guide to Colorado (Lane/Aba Birdfinding Guide.) (Spiral-bound)

My trip was unfortunately shortened, but I did have a chance to use it in the northern prairie area and in Eastern Co, and it was indeed very useful. It helped cut the guess work on where to go and what I might see when I got there. An update to this helpful guide would be excellent. I give it four feathers up!
By the way, I ordered the book just before I left for CO and received it well in time. If I recall it is out of print and I got it used through Amazon. The book arrived in mint condition.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Does this book even exist?, February 22, 2007

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Barb (Eagle, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Birder's Guide to Colorado (Lane/Aba Birdfinding Guide.) (Spiral-bound)

I have had this book on order for over a year now. I still want it, but it doesn't seem to be available. I am asked periodically to update my order, and I do, but still no book.